Tag Archives: ddos

According to Sucuri, which is a security firm, hackers have used a weakness present in WordPress to use 162,000 of their sites to launch a DDoS attack against a well-known WordPress site whose identity is being kept secret.
The we...

Namecheap, which is a popular domain registrar, was just recently hit by one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks that has been seen to date.
The attack happened early on Thursday, when around 300 of NamecheapR...

Snapchat has apparently fixed the vulnerabilities present within their app that allowed for denial of service attacks to take place and shut down the iPhone.
Snapchat has tried to assure us that all the problems with this particu...

According to a new report, Snapchat makes the iPhone vulnerable to denial of service attacks, essentially resulting in a crashed device.
The report, which was written by Jamie Sanchez, a cyber-security researcher, details how vul...

The PayPal 14, as they have come to be known, are a group of loosely connected people who are being charged after they (allegedly) participated in a protest against PayPal and others. They have recently been given a plea deal, bu...

The website for U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), an institution now at the center of a huge international scandal for its espionage activities, was inaccessible Friday night, according to an agency spokesman. NSA is trying to...

Do you use Orbit Downloader, a popular download manager for Windows? Then you should uninstall it right now because, according to ESET (the makers of NOD32 anti-virus), Orbit Downloader contains malware.
More specifically, ESET a...